Improvement in whip-sockets



L. J. PARSONS.-

Whip Socket.-

Patented Oct. 20, 1868.

Fi /f2 N. FEI'ERS, PHOTO uited %tatet LOUIS J. PARSONS, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 83,203, dated October 20, 1868.

IMIPROVENEENT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

-o--- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LOUIS J. PARSONS, of New Bedford, in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Whip-Socket; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. I

My invention consists in making a whip-socket in longitudinal sections, connected at their lower ends to each other, or to a bottom piece, by springs, hinges, or any practical device, and held together at the top by an elastic band.

Figure 1 is a'perspective view of my invention, attached to a standard.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section.

Figure 3 is a portion of standard and socket separated.

Fig'. 1. A is the whip-socket; B, standard to which the socket is attached; C, screw in standard; 1), elastic band; E, spring-catch.

Fig. 2. A whip-socket; 13 standard; 0 0, screws in standard, by which the socket is secured; D elastic band; E, spring-catch; d, screw for securing the lower ends of sections of socket together, and to bottom piece, h 0 nut on Screw d g g" g, springs connecting the lower ends of sections of socket.

Fig. 3. A, portion of whip-socket; B portion of standard O screw in standard; E spring-catch sliding on screws 0 having apin on the lower end which Operation.

The whip-socket being made in sections, connected at the bottom by Springs or hinges, and held together at the top by an elastic band, and secured to the carriage, as herein set forth and described, its operation may be noted The handle of the whip being pushed into the socket, the sections separate from each other sufliciently to permit it to enter, and it'will be held securely byth'e elasticity of the band D.

In this invention I do not claim any device previously invented or patented for whip-socket; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- nected together at the bottom by springs or hinges, and held'together at the top by an elastic band, as herein set forth and describe-d.

LOU-ISJ. PARSONS. Witnesses:

J 01311 R. LINTON, TH. E. M. WHITE.

Making whip-sockets in longitudinal sections, con- 

